Co-creation of a step-by-step guide for specifying the test-management pathway to formulate focused guideline questions about healthcare related tests.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guideline development on testing is known to be difficult for guideline developers. It requires consideration of various aspects, such as accuracy, purpose of testing, and consequences on management and people-important outcomes. This can be outlined in a test-management pathway. We aimed to create and user-test a step-by-step guide for guideline developers for designing a test-management pathway.

Methods

Developmental design with a co-creative strategy. We created a draft step-by-step guide, that was user tested in a workshop with 19 experts, and by interviewing 7 guideline panel members.

Results

Our proposed guide consists of five blocks of signalling questions: patients/population, index test(s), current practice/comparison/control, people-important outc

SUBMITTER: Tuut MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11481243 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature